New efforts!

[Shidan]

Being able to warp or portal to zones as a travel power I think is a fantastic idea.  Initially, after playing for a few years, I thought how tedious it was to have to change tram lines to get to certain zones and wonder why they didn't have a tram to take you to Founders.  After they changed all of that, I really missed the exhilaration of having to do that terror run (if you were woefully out-matched) staying in the exact middle of the street through Steel Canyon or Skyway to switch trams and running through Talos to get to Founders was a bit thrilling too.  I think sometimes tedium is not a bad thing.

Wasn't this already a thing anyway?
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Teleportation#Long_Range_Teleport

[Sinistar]

Bad as it was, it still didn't make him retire from acting like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen did.  :'(

I don't think it was the movie, but problems with the Director. I'd say at that point that Connery had simply had enough of the whole Hollywood scene, but I'm only speculating.

I know that Connery and Lucas did have a conversation about whether he should be in Indy 4 with the mutual  agreement that he wouldn't.   As I recall the character that played the Dean that resigned on Indy's behalf was created to replace Indy's father/Connery.

[microc]

http://m.ign.com/articles/2014/09/03/city-of-heroes-license-could-be-resurrected

[Zombie Hustler]

I liked LXG...

I thought it was okay myself. Sean Connery hated it and everything about it.

[Scendera]

However as bad as the 2nd movie was, Highlander 5: the Source was so pathetically awful that it makes Highlander 2 almost look like an Oscar winning movie by comparison.

The last few minutes...omg we died laughing it was so bad!

[FloatingFatMan]

I thought it was okay myself. Sean Connery hated it and everything about it.

Yeah, but he also likes to slap women, so who cares what he likes anyway? :p

[Arcana]

Also while we are talking about Lucas and his works, let us pause for a moment about Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.

Fair enough.

I really don't get th

Moment's up.

[Remidi]

Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my favorite movies of all time, if not *the* favorite.  It was the perfect popcorn adventure movie.  Indy went after a massively legendary item, straight out of the Bible.  In the second movie... heck, I don't even remember the point of the second movie.  It was full of some blonde chick screaming a lot and people getting their hearts ripped out.  The third was a wonderful return to the feel of the first movie, and again went after a big name artifact, the Holy Grail.

All that leads up to my biggest problem with the fourth movie.  I could buy Indy encountering aliens.  I could buy the fridge, and the general story.  I didn't like the casting for the son character, but I loved, loved, loved, seeing the Marion Ravenwood character return, since she was the only decent female in any of the movies.  But my biggest problem with the Crystal Skulls was, well, the crystal skulls.  As artifacts, they are duds.   If they wanted to send Indy to that part of the world, there are loads of genuine things he could have gone after.  My husband made a joke that in a fifth movie, "Indy goes after the mighty pyramid power hat."

[Von Krieger]

the worst movie of Connery's career.

Zardoz.

[Remaugen]

Zardoz.

Had to google that one. . . *Shudder*  :o  those pics cannot be unseen. . .


We're almost there!   ;D

[Illusionss]

Being able to warp or portal to zones as a travel power I think is a fantastic idea.  Initially, after playing for a few years, I thought how tedious it was to have to change tram lines to get to certain zones and wonder why they didn't have a tram to take you to Founders.  After they changed all of that, I really missed the exhilaration of having to do that terror run (if you were woefully out-matched) staying in the exact middle of the street through Steel Canyon or Skyway to switch trams and running through Talos to get to Founders was a bit thrilling too.  I think sometimes tedium is not a bad thing.

No, its a genuinely a bad thing.

While I have my memories of trying to negotiate Mercy as a new player, its generally not a thing that endears me to a game. This is one of the things that made Guild Wars 2 such a slog for me: although they do have [immersion-breaking] teleporters over there, you also did a whooooooole lot of trotting hither, thither and yon. AND NOT AT A FAST PACE EITHER. Most games don't have stuff like jetpacks or Ninja Run. You just trot everywhere, taking up much of your playtime just trying to get to where you need to be. Often with higher-level NPCs waiting to ambush you as you run by. Then you rez at the teleporters and do it all over again.....HOW ABOUT NO! I don't find that at all fun.

CoX got you away from all that idea that all travel must be slow and painful, and it was wonderful. It made you wait a bit to earn that power, and when you did, FREE AT LAST! I remember the day my villain main got Flight, and how she flew circles all around the Arena and then flew all over Port Oakes, marveling at how fun it all was! That was the day I first felt super, and I will never forget it.

This is one reason I still maintain a minimal presence in CO: it may be slow and pokey compared to CoX's, but at least you do have the ability to fly there.

And most games don't let you cheat. I remember before we had a tailor in every zone, if I had a newbie whose costume I needed to change - and I didn't want to re-roll - I could swim him or her all the way around Mercy, to the ferry up by the main fort. I could jump off the ferry and swim around to the Cap Au Diable tailor - allowing my level 5-ish alt to avoid level 9? Luddites and Vazhilok. Plus, swimming was fun!

Most games don't give you an out like that. This one did, and lets keep it like that because it makes the game more fun/less stressful, esp. when people have no real idea what they're doing.... like I didn't.

[Waffles]

Wasn't this already a thing anyway?
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Teleportation#Long_Range_Teleport

I could be wrong, it -has- been about two years, more or less.

From what I remember, Long Range Teleport was very limited in what zones you could actually go to.

[Remaugen]

No, its a genuinely a bad thing.

While I have my memories of trying to negotiate Mercy as a new player, its generally not a thing that endears me to a game. This is one of the things that made Guild Wars 2 such a slog for me: although they do have [immersion-breaking] teleporters over there, you also did a whooooooole lot of trotting hither, thither and yon. AND NOT AT A FAST PACE EITHER. Most games don't have stuff like jetpacks or Ninja Run. You just trot everywhere, taking up much of your playtime just trying to get to where you need to be. Often with higher-level NPCs waiting to ambush you as you run by. Then you rez at the teleporters and do it all over again.....HOW ABOUT NO! I don't find that at all fun.

CoX got you away from all that idea that all travel must be slow and painful, and it was wonderful. It made you wait a bit to earn that power, and when you did, FREE AT LAST! I remember the day my villain main got Flight, and how she flew circles all around the Arena and then flew all over Port Oakes, marveling at how fun it all was! That was the day I first felt super, and I will never forget it.

This is one reason I still maintain a minimal presence in CO: it may be slow and pokey compared to CoX's, but at least you do have the ability to fly there.

And most games don't let you cheat. I remember before we had a tailor in every zone, if I had a newbie whose costume I needed to change - and I didn't want to re-roll - I could swim him or her all the way around Mercy, to the ferry up by the main fort. I could jump off the ferry and swim around to the Cap Au Diable tailor - allowing my level 5-ish alt to avoid level 9? Luddites and Vazhilok. Plus, swimming was fun!

Most games don't give you an out like that. This one did, and lets keep it like that because it makes the game more fun/less stressful, esp. when people have no real idea what they're doing.... like I didn't.

If the expanded travel powers were offered only at higher levels then up and coming toons would still have to experience the adventures of traveling until they reached those higher levels. Really most players would probably not take them, preferring to save the slots for combat powers. I would probably take advantage of them though as I used to hate having to repetitively cross three different zones to get to a mission and then back!

[Harpospoke]

http://m.ign.com/articles/2014/09/03/city-of-heroes-license-could-be-resurrected

The word is spreading.   Hopefully that is a good thing.   :)

[Remaugen]

The word is spreading.   Hopefully that is a good thing.   :)

Good simple article, good press!

We're almost there!   ;D

[Harpospoke]

He also maintains that there was only one Highlander movie and a few episodes of a television series.

There are also only 2 Alien movies.  (Ripley saving Newt was not a waste of time)   ....And Prometheus.    ;D

Only Spider-Man 1 & 2
Only one Matrix
Several Superman and Batman movies don't really exist....and Green Lantern too....and Catwoman...and Jonah Hex.  (wtf Warner Brothers!)
Kick Ass 2 never happened
Hulk...never happened
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park is just a rumor
Caddyshack 2...never happened
Arrested Development Netflix episodes don't really exist
The Gone with the Wind sequel was just a bad idea which was never filmed
Cars, Cars 2, and Ratatouille were never made


More denial

Firefly, Arrested Development, and The Tick were not canceled
Sammy Hagar never joined Van Halen
Bruce Lee didn't die and is the only force in the universe that can stop Chuck Norris

[MaidMercury]

August 13 - , made a great leap forward yesterday.
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----quote reminds me of something- oh, yezz, :  :roll:
The Great Leap Forward took place in 1958. The Great Leap Forward was Mao's attempt to modernise China's economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivalled America.

[Harpospoke]

Now, let's get to the part that had fans groaning, the fridge nuke.  Yes by all rights Indy should have broken his neck in all that tumbling around. But he emerges just fine and gets decontaminated back at the base.  yet people are moaning and groaning about the implausibility of him surviving that.....

....these people have forgotten that Indy is a character made to survive the unsurvivable! He is meant to cheat death, escape death and laugh it off later.

Agreed.   The fridge nuke was something I heard about before seeing it and I didn't see what all the fuss was about.

Shia on the other hand...yuck.   How is he leading man material?   He's got a bad case of punch-face.

[Nyx Nought Nothing]

Agreed.   The fridge nuke was something I heard about before seeing it and I didn't see what all the fuss was about.

He's close enough to a nuclear detonation to have suffered a lethal dose of radiation unless the fridge was at least 1/2" lead (for no reason, there is no reason to make the compartment of a refrigerator with lead that thick barring storage of radioactive materials inside it), and really, who would make a 1,000+ lb fridge and put it in a wood frame house? And yes, the sort of impacts the fridge undergoes after being hurled hundreds of feet by a nuclear fireball would kill any flesh and blood human. Indy's previous escapes were for the most part highly improbable lucky breaks, not outright ignoring multiple laws of physics, both regular and nuclear. The decontamination/remediation procedure for Indy after that blast would've consisted of pouring his pulped and irradiated remains into a hazardous materials container and replacing it with a fresh Indy clone. (Which might be what really happened considering the aliens and everything else in that movie.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arib8uWMWsM

[Waffles]

The word is spreading.   Hopefully that is a good thing.   :)

Normally i'd say that's good, but for some reason i'm under the impression this is going to piss NCsoft off for some stupid reason, and make things harder for our guys.

Could be wrong though.